This is the replication package for: Melnick, Justin, Alastair Smith, and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, "Political Life Cycles." Journal of Politics. Forthcoming.

Contact: melnickj@nyu.edu

Set working directory to the PLC_replication folder and run the PLC_replication_code.R file in order to replicate Tables 2-3 in the main text and tables 4-6 from the online appendix.

sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.6.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-x86_64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.0